Following Jesus requires total commitment and discipleship, not just a superficial press of a button. True Christianity involves being shaped by Christ and spreading his kingdom by bringing others to faith. The early disciples were first called Christians in Antioch as they spread the gospel and faced opposition that accused them of turning the world upside down through their message.

1. DiscipleShift
What Does Following Jesus
Look Like?

2. "When Jesus says follow
me it's not like on Twitter
where you just press a
button. He wants your
whole life.“

3. “Christianity without
discipleship is Christianity
without Christ."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4. “We are Disciples of
Christ, or we are not
Christians at all.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

5. Matthew 4:19 (ESV)
19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will
make you fishers of men.”

6. Follow Me
(Yes, Lord – I will follow you)
I will make you
(Yes, Lord – I will allow you to make and shape my life)
Fishers of men
(Yes Lord – I will spread your Kingdom)

7. Acts 11:26 (ESV)
… And in Antioch the disciples were first
called Christians.

8. Sadducees
Pharisees
Essenes
Zealots

9. Acts 17:5-9 (ESV)
5 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some
wicked men of the rabble, they formed a
mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked
the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out
to the crowd. 6 And when they could not find
them, they dragged Jason and some of the
brothers before the city authorities, shouting,
“These men who have turned the world
upside down have come here also ….

10. “Never doubt that a
small group of thoughtful
committed citizens can
change the world; indeed,
it's the only thing that
ever has.”
Margaret Mead
(Anthropologist)

11. Matthew 4:19 (ESV)
19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will
make you fishers of men.”

12. Matt 13:37-38
37 He answered, "The one who sowed the good seed is
the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, and the good
seed stands for the sons of the kingdom.

13. D – Divine truth
N – Nurturing Accountability
A – Apostolically Minded

14. Matthew 4:19 (ESV)
19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make
you fishers of men.”
‘Follow Me ‘
‘I will make you ‘
‘Fishers of men ‘